"Don't get mad! Get Glad!"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:17 AM -0400 6/1/10, Bill Palmer wrote:
>I never did either, but heard plenty of others.
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>My favorite:
>
>"Use your head for something besides a hatrack"
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>Bill Palmer

Mine:

"Go out and play in heavy traffic."

LH

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>From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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>>I've never heard that parentism.
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>>JL
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>>On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Does anyone else understand this slogan as a trivial rewording of the
>>>old parentism,
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>>>"If you're getting mad, you'd better get glad!"
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>>>like unto
>>>
>>>"Don't make me come ...!"
>>>
>>>"Your head is hard as as a rock!"
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>>>"Can't we have anything nice around here?!"
>>>
>>>etc.
>>>
>>>My wife says that she knows the "glad" thing only as a commercial slogan.
>>>
>>>OTOH, I know the slogan as a disturbing reminder of a parentism often
>>>followed up by an ear-boxing, if I failed to delete any indication of
>>>anger - or even of mere annoyance - from my face quickly enough;
>>>
>>>-Wilson
>>>=96=96=96
>>>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint
>>>t=
>>o
>>>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>>=96Mark Twain
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